The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-08-07
THE HUMAN APPETITE
Tidbits That Appeal TO Children Of Mature
in Many Parts of the Globe.

ed, sand my TREND as we SAL GOWN 70
dinner. IL have given the subject a
great deal of thought, and have trav-
eled so much that have become almost
sn anehorite in the matter of eating. II
have weakness it is dietetics
There is this about food; in point OF
quantity. without regard to quality.
the dwellers in the extreme north claim
pre-eminence. An Esquimaux will eat
twenty pounds of meat per diem, lub-
ricating the mass with as much oil rs
he can swallow; yet Tongouse will go
twenty pounds better, for he can get
away with forty pounds of reindeer
meat in the same space of time. Both
of them blush for their feeble powers
when they see three Iakutes demolish
a whole reindeer at one sitting, and
rise apparently none the worse for the
feed.
1.-The Australasan is rather odd in
the matter of dietetics. One New Hol-
lander saw dispose of more than
hundred vaulting rats at one repast,
swallowing them. for the most part,
with some of the hair still upon them,
| holding them by their tails and biting
the bodies off with his teeth. Not to be
| wasteful, he afterward disposed of the
| tails. The same innocent children OF
| Nature affect stale shark, rancid whale
| blubber, carth-worms and such tribes.
Kangaroo tail is dish an Australian
finds much flavor in. 1t is delicious.
The natives highly esteem the silent
but wild dingo, neither do they turn
| up their noses at rats. but glattony Is
| allied to rudeness. The black fellow,
| when at meals, devours all he can,
only now and then flinging morsel
| over his shoulder to his wife and chill
dren. He is likewise improvident, for
| he seeks food only when he Graves it,
gorges to the last possible tension OF
his dirty. black skin. and then sleeps
for several days and nights consecu-
| lively Eating in the Australasian
bush, by white folk. is sadly married
by flies. fieas and the yellow bottle,
supplemented by mosquitoes, compared
to which New Jersey ones are but suck
lings.
"Coming to South America, the Otto
macs are the oldest people. They sub
sist entirely on fat and ferrnginous
kind of clay, each man eating daily a
pound or more. The Indians of the
| Amazon cat a kind of loan, preferrine
it to other and decidedly better food.
| have seen them do it. The Peruvians
are also clay eaters, their mess being a
mixture of tale and mica-rather tough
food, even for Peru. Other nations are
earth eaters-the inhabitants of New
Guinea. some of the Boliyians, the ne
groes of Jamaica, and the natives Of
New Caledonia, as well as many peo'
who dwell in Siam, Siberia and Hams
chatka. The Ottomacs, however, are
the only ones who subsist ON clay when
other food is obtainable.
I'm Africa found diet as various as
the people, and such trifles as blue
mole. mice, fat sleeps tails, stewed
puppies, puma, baked elephants trunk
and feet, ostrich eggs, ants stewed in
butter eaterpllars, roasted spiders
snails (eight inches long,, and ode
articles rot generally regarded as foot
are consumed.
"When the natives of the West Indies
are regarded from dietetic standpoint
baked snakes glide into the men,
, along with palm worms Ga finger long,
fried in their own fat; yet these color
ed gourmands can not abide rabbi
stew! Rats are there also considered
q nice side dish, with occasional relishe
of gecana eggs and palm tree snou
beetles. Sounds nasty, doesn't it?
"In those Asiatic countries where
have been the palate can be disguste'
or ticklcd with no end of curiou
dishes. We know how ingenious tn
Chinese are in their cuisine, finding de
, light in half-hatched eggs, sharks fin
!. and maws. fowls aud ducks tongues
dogs hind quarters, rat soup made iron
: the nests of the Mru,,do esculento, and
as an appetizer. the crysalis of the sill
worm, after the silk has been woun'
from it.
an Siam the dried sinews of variou
animals form a dish much liked.
found it very good. Alligators' egg
a are eaten in many Eastern countries
a and nastier dish it wo uld be hard
imagine. Ants enter largely into Orr
4 entail bills of fare, and in Ceylon tn
v busy bee is masticated by the very me
f who have profited by the honey it ha
4 made.
'.In the Antilles lizard very ofte
n is the piece dc resistance at a nativ
: feast, yet they will not t uch the tootf
q some young alligator. The manatee'
4 tail is staple dish in Honduras. Thi
! is not bad eating.
A .'Snails are eaten everywhere. TIL
French are great believers in them as
q succulent dish. The European markt
n is mostly supplied from the 'snailerie
n of the Isle of Crete, where they ar
p cultivated secuadem artem, and on
e kind is specially prepared, being ia
o tened upon strawberries, for consumI
O tives.
i, ..The japanese are fond Of flying TO,
q The dessert of the Chinese middl
l. classes consists of melon pips, the sea
let and yellow varieties being grow
n solely for their seeds.
4 ..Out in Central America the stated
i curasos and the sober guam, both lare
h birds, are diligently hunted as tab
h delcacies, yet the first-named bipe
h must not be eaten by the hunters do:
d for it will assuredly poison it.
a ITO these may be added the gibn'
h or tepesquinta, the peccary and the Il
Il dian rabbit; all acceptable additions
a that larder, which is further enriche
!. by balloons and monkeys. The la
r. named, however, when roasted loo
Il like small babies-yet they taste del
"a ciously.
v "Hippophagy has not made mar
+ converts, although it has large nur
: Der of advocates. They, perhaps, I
# not practice all they preach. and on
a drive horses onto other peoples table
l. without indulging in equine repasts
n their own. In Madgeburg some yea
ago u friend of mine saw foal of Il
value of one hundred dollars put on
the central dish at marriage feast, Il
= cost being more esteemed than Il
meat
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